Another thing about Goroh interestingly enough is that he may be a ruthless thief, but he would never kill anyone. Yet we see him threaten Falcon's life on a couple of occasions. But maybe Falcon knows his threats are just hot air. And I believe Dr. Stewart played a big part in preventing any casualties from the huge F-Zero accident that happened before X, so based off of that I'd imagine he indeed is largely responsible for Mighty Gazelle's cyborg implements.
Great breakdown of the series' racers. One of my favorite things about F-Zero, next to the fantastic gameplay, is the presentation. Most arcade-style racing games of this type are deliberately barebones in that area, which is fine, but what makes F-Zero stand out is its dedication to that 80s-90s comic book aesthetic. For a Japanese franchise, it really nails the stylings of American comics from that era. All of the characters take after common archetypes like superheroes, supervillains, bounty hunters, mutants, aliens, cyborgs, etc. It's campy and doesn't take itself seriously, but still exudes a degree of badassery that perfectly matches the tone of the medium it's emulating. The characters are all fairly shallow parodies, but there's just enough to each of them that they're fun and endearing. Leaving so much up to the mind of the player also lends an element of personalization to the experience of gameplay. Why exactly DOES Goroh hate Falcon so much? You're never really told in any detail, but all you know is you get an extra sense of satisfaction from running your rival off the road during a grand prix. The effort to include ultimately trivial but entertaining detail through characterization seems like a small thing, but it adds a ton of charm to the actual play experience and puts F-Zero on a higher pedestal for me than most other futuristic racing games.
I’ve never been too fond of the F-Zero series but after watching this video, it’s criminal that Nintendo hasn’t tried anything new with these games or characters yet. It totally deserves more!
Considering the talk of all Nintendo fans concerning F-Zero 99, I feel like F-Zero is finally coming around to public knowledge and reigniting interest in the series. I genuinely believe this series might have another chance soon!
@@luigines6457 one theory why Nintendo abandon F0, is because Mario karts drifting controls were not very good back then. So now now that Mario kart has gotten a lot better. Nintendo no longer needs F0??? So far there is at least hope for 2d f zero.
As someone pursuing a second college degree at age 34 I relate to Silver Neelsen on a spiritual level. I want this series to come back now more than ever.
I always thought the James McCloud reference was really cool and that they should've eventually attempted human versions for more of the Star Fox cast. Imagine a human Falco, Krystal, Wolf and even Andross here. F-Zero GX also always gave me a fighting game vibe with the way it's character lore and arcade ending movies were handled.
They also put Octoman in Star Fox: Command...as a villain. I played that game before I got into F-Zero, so I initially thought the F-Zero Octoman was a villain too.
And as the cherry on the Sunday… In one of the endings, Fox and Falco can become racers!! (Ik Star Fox Command is bad, but it would have been a scandal if I didn’t mention it.)
@@gravity8120 It's because he's a boss in SFC that I don't consider Octoman as a hero. More of a neutral character due to his temperament. That said, he could be redeemed as one if he fought fishermen invading his planet.
Man, your rank-order list was crazy. Goes to show the variety of the characters and the different opinions people can form of them. For real, though, F-Zero characters are pretty cool and, I think, if more people knew about them, it would make lots more fans for the series.
So glad to see a video that puts the spotlight on the characters. This was always a very underrated aspect of the series. Maybe if they do another game (whenever that will be) they can try to do something to flesh them out more, like a World Tour mode similar to Street Fighter 6, especially if they have Toshihiro Nagoshi, the creator of the Yakuza games, working on the game again. Hell, this can also work for a new Virtua Fighter game. Also, for my favorite characters in the series, Captain Falcon is an obvious one but I really think Phoenix really cool, I also really like Samurai Goroh, being the brash rival of Falcon who has a lot of personality but is also a decent father surprisingly enough. And I would also love to mention Princia Ramode, who I have a huge soft spot as she somewhat reminds me of Jam design wise but probably has more similarities to Daisy from the Mario series, both being tomboy princesses of a desert area.
22:50 I think his design (mainly the glasses) are based on Beat from Jet Set Radio As for the Machine name, I think the dolphin part is a reference to the GameCubes Codename (which was Dolphin, they loved to make dolphin references back then)
I grew up playing F-Zero X and GX. I love these games, I love these characters, I love each characters theme songs. GX especially shows that F-Zero has such a colorful cast of characters and it is so criminal that they haven't done literally ANYTHING with almost the entire cast. Hoping with the success of F-Zero 99 that Nintendo decides to bring them back in the coming years (hopefully with a little better writing lol) Awesome video, thanks for spreading the good news of F-Zero :)
Kinda wish you went into the interviews more. Mighty Gazelle actually revealed he does Disaster Rescue when he isn’t racing. So would that make him a hero in your definition?
There's so much information about the characters, like Super Arrow never actually driving before entering F-Zero, Don Genie funding some of Black Shadow's operations, and Mr. EAD's machine is actually his brother! They didn't need to go into so much detail for each character but they did. I'd love to see another F-Zero even just to learn more about the characters.
1:19 I tried this challenge initially, managed to get all 5, celebrated, only to later realize I got the names wrong anyway. Oh well! Glad to see you're back, Characters In-Depth!
Awesome video! It's great to see someone talk about F-Zero's forgotten cast. I always thought F-Zero had a ton of fun and quirky characters that needed more spotlight, but never got to shine due to the severe lack of F-Zero games. These character have a lot of potential. Give us more from them, Nintendo!
How about a game about Captain Falcon being a bounty hunter that takes down evil-doers. Perhaps he can team up with F-Zero pilots along that way to give them time to shine? I don't know, I would love that. To drive to places is with their vehicles.
I loved James McCloud's Theme so much I would just stay on the select screen, options or whatever just to hear his song play over and over again. Such a cool rift.
I appreciate that you gave attention to the lore side of F-Zero, as it is really one of the BIG unique aspects of the series that makes it great. I mean, we even got our own anime--is that not proof F-Zero is more than just a racing game?
Personally, I don't feel that the anime or GP/Climax is to blame for F-Zero's lack of modern life. I'm pretty confident that F-Zero GX not yielding great success is the more likely source. But I'm just taking guesses here.
I think my favorite pilot in terms of being outside the machine is Leon. He's a surprisingly nice guy! But PJ just shot up for me as well. Maybe its because i just learned that what i previously thought was a mouth is actually his snout.
Goroh actually had a decent time in the Anime, he was badass and actually helped the heroes a lot but doing it for his benefit as well but he would help with honor. But he also trolled quite a bit and it was hilarious. Goroh was my favorite during the anime besides Ryo and Haruka. The anime was badass and amazing and even though its ending was sad it was really good.
There’s some interesting tidbits about the machines. Like Draq and Roger’s machines. Not only did they wind up unclaimed, apparently they were built by a racing team that completely and mysteriously vanished after something called The Great Accident
that part with silver neilson and you wanting to keep at it a being a voice actor got to me, been streaming for a year now but its something i want to do as a full time thing so the video at that part really gave me some motivation to keep streaming up
Hey, I paused the video at 1:23 and was able to name seven: Jodi Summer, Dr. Stewart, Lisa Alen, Black Bull, Blood Falcon, and James McCloud. I could probably name more but I have a headache right now. I read quite a few bios in F-Zero GX, man we really need another one of those. Great video so far.
Two series I love as well. Both are very similar to each other. If they had a crossover together, it would have been more than perfect: It would have been perfectly amazing!
I don't want to be this guy, but I almost knew all the names from the game, even most of the Cars names. My brother and I played this game to no end, doing everything on Extreme took so much of our time, but there were very few games that felt so rewarding beating the Extreme difficulty. Mission 7, the Grand Prix, took calculating and perfect driving to even think about winning. Kill Black Shadow right at the start of the race, because he started one position behind you. Take out Blood Falcon next, because he will hug the first place for the whole race. Boosting perfectly, and taking every turn for 5 full laps and you MIGHT win. Or Mission 5, saving Jody....holy crap man. You get like 45 Seconds. One teeny tiny mistake, and you restart. And you have to boost 24/7, so driving as fast as possible for the Blue Falcon, while dodging doors in a tunnel and flying through gaps that barely have enough space to fit through. You also had to take every boosting arrows, or you couldn't make it because your own boosting was not enough. F-Zero is such a good franchise, a shame that Nintendo buried it because of the bad sells.
What a fantastic video! Even though I discovered the video now, it's a great way of introducing everyone quickly to all the characters F-zero has to offer. But I have to be that guy and say that I would have liked that you mentioned two important facts that were censored! These are in the japanese version, which is still dubbed in english (no jp dub), where in the interviews, Digiboy says that he doesn't believe in god (upon asked, "Who believes in such illusions?"), and that Baba dresses in drag, which is pretty cool if you ask me. Still, I must say again that thanks for the effort!
I started get deep in the f-zero franchise thanks to X on the switch I’ve also purchased the original cartridge for the n64 and GX This games deserve so much love damn they’re just AWESOME
12:22 Shoutout to Iwata who created both the Star Fox and F-Zero series. He’s also the very reason why Fox and Falcon (Captain Falcon, not Falco Lombardi) are connected to each other.
Nintendo: We can’t make a new F-Zero game until we can come up with a new gimmick for it. Also Nintendo: Gives us a sequel to mediocre launch title for the Switch that not a lot of people remember or liked.
@@misterniceguy429 Starfox zero's controls is not as bad as everyone says. You can use the minus button to put the cockpit view to the Tv screen and back again. Plus it made sense shooters with motion controls were a trend. Splatoon, Prime 3, and Resident Evil 4. Not the case with racing games.
Baba needs to remain untouched if they ever make a new game. He's fabulous the way he is. And Dai, San and Gen deserve to return too. Seriously, if the problem is their voices, just have them played differently. They could even still have accents with a more PC portrayal, as long as no one tries to play the "accents in general are racist somehow" card that too many people like to play now.
Sadly in the suffocating pc world, any attempt of an accent will be misconstrued as such.. hell i don't get what is so "racist" about Dai san gen's voices.
Let's go! Numerically! 0. Deathborn 1. Mighty Gazelle 2. Jody Summer 3. Dr. Stewart (My doctor's name is coincidentally also Robert Stewart.) 4. Baba 5. SG 6. Pico 7. CF 8. Octoman 9. Mr. EAD 10. James McCloud 11. Billy 12. Kate Allen 13. Zoda 14. Jack Levin 15. Bio-Rex 16. The Skull 17. Antonio Guster 18. Beastman 19. Leon 20. Super Arrow 21. Mrs. Arrow 22. Gomar & Shioh 23. Silver Neelsen 24. Michael Chain 25. Blood Falcon 26. John Tanaka 27. Draq 28. Roger Buster 29. Dr. Clash 30. Black Shadow 31. Don Genie 32. Digi Boy 33. Dai, San, and Gen 34. Spade 35. Dai Goroh 36. Princia Ramode 37. Lily Flyer 38. PJ 39. QQQ 40. Phoenix And that's just GX.
1:20 Honestly it took me a moment to think about five characters besides Samurai Goroh and Captain Falcon. Dr. Stewart, Pico, Judy Summer, Black Shadow, and Blood Falcon. The thing is unless you bothered to look at the trophies in Melee, Brawl, or Ultimate you likely wouldn't know about them let alone the game itself.
1:21 Easy. Super Arrow, Mrs. Arrow, Phoenix, PJ, Princia Ramode, Dr. Stewart, Pico, Black Shadow, Deathborn, Michael Chain, Silver Neelson, DaiSanGen, Dai Goro, Jody Summers and Blood Falcon
That's why F-Zero are so specials compared to others futuristic games, there's a complete lore and universe in it, about pilots, and also about their machines, like Black Shadow's Black Bull being an old desamorced missile, Zoda's Death Anchor too, but he doesn't know that it's not desamorced and so his machine litteraly is a bomb being able to explode at any moment on the race Fire Stingray, Green Panther and Silver Rat are all the catch from an old thief when Goroh and Guster were still in good terms, but after Goroh's betrayal, Guster stole the Green Panther as a revanche, Silver Rat is also a prototype machine, it explains why it's overall weaker than any other machine except in boost power Others examples of lore according machine is Leon's Space Angler being pretty weak due to the lack of good quality stuff to build it after the war on his planet, on the contrary of Don Genie's Fat Shark being an absolute monster due to the amount of money spent into it, it's even said that Fat Shark's engine is litteraly made of pure gold And there's so much more lore ! That's why F-Zero is the best racing game franchise ever made !
Octoman is portrayed as a villain in the anime storyline, which I always thought was oddly mature seeing as his profile shows him fighting for his own planet and everything
So, for that first question at the start. 1. Zoda 2. Super Arrow 3. Ms. Arrow 4. James McCloud 5. Phoenix 6. Blood Falcon 7. The Skull As much as I love F-Zero Nintendo scares me with their responses to F-Zero between “We don’t know what to do with it.” And “Mario Kart already exists.” I’m horrified thinking of what Nintendo would do to the series. The last game Nintendo developed for F-Zero was X which was amazing but that was older Nintendo. I’m just afraid Nintendo will try to gimmick the game up with stupid mechanics and stuff nobody wants. Like the Mario sports games that had to have stupid gimmicks like making fighting game mechanics in tennis and racing in Mario golf.
We're more-or-less past the motion control/touch screen craze. If there's a new F-Zero, it should be buttons. There could be an option for motion controls just for the fun of it.
I grew up playing f zero x and never played/ heard of f zero gx till a few years ago and always assumed the anime which I watched when I was little was the official lore story line and just imagined it when I played fzero x. Now I gotta play Gx to experience the campaign and those crazy tracks
I wished you would go to do the anime as well, because I love on of the characters there. However you did a great job spotlighting other pilots in the franchise, because having Captain Falcon as the ONLY representitive in Smash Bros. is downright criminal.
Basically any of the characters shown in this vid could've been in a Smash game. Dr. Stewart or Dr. Clash could be a pretty funny addition. Or maybe give Super Arrow a chance to shine? Or hell, put Jody Summer in the game, she's a federation pilot! She could be best buds with Samus.
I think Bolson from Zelda: Breath of the Wild might have been somewhat inspired by Baba. Both characters are flamboyant and wear some form of tiger print
@@denimchicken104 they are for sure, but it's interesting how both characters have such strikingly similar costume designs. It's unfortunate they're both so stereotypical, but the similarities are still too plenty to just ignore, and with the F-Zero franchise having been in limbo for so long, it wouldn't be too shocking to find out they've been recycling some of those old character concepts.
The tiger print is because Bolson is inspired on Ocarina of Time's Master Carpenter, which wore tiger print pants and his wife had a tiger kitten as pet, not because of Baba.
very outstanding video!! youve honestly piqued my interest for this neat game. from what i saw i'd say my favorites are: Spade (i REALLY like their design) Super Arrow & Mrs. Arrow (theyre too cute.) Mighty Gazelle (i think hes cute too!!) Deathborne (hes SO funny yet still has a menacing streak to him) maybe Blood Falcon too (i have a strange obession with pathetic evil clones LOL) with that said, maybe i should give GX a try.. looks fun as hell
Hell, I'd see one as a newcomer who won the minor leagues before F-Zero but starts badly as hours after making the victory party, gets its machine broken down, beyond repair, where you begin with an E-Rank vehicle. You'd go through missions, getting money for vehicle parts and pilot clothes, hair and skin (if you want to make it human or from another planet) and having an alignment system, depending on who you choose as allies and rivals/enemies, as your goal is to become a F-Zero legend, vying to eventually get the attention of Captain F himself.
It's such a crime that Falcon is the only character that's in Smash, like cmon not even Dr. Stewart? So many of them are interesting! Favorite character for me is a tough one, I like a lot of em. I can't decide between several of them, like Dr. Stewart, Mighty Gazelle, Ms. Arrow, Jody, or Gomar & Shioh. Favorite craft in the 3D games though is the Fire Stringray, that thing cruises! Also I'm GX I think it's the only one when a moving tail rudder.
You're like name Pilots that aren't Captain Falcon or Samurai Goro and I'm about to yakko's world the entire cast over here. Now mind you that I don't currently have a rhyming guide with me but it would go something like this Mr EAD, Octoman, Digi-Boy, Dai Sen Gen, Baba, Gomar & Shioh. Spade, Roger Guster, Draq, Antonio Guster, Zoda, Pico, Princia Ramode
@@Mari_Izu Not really. That's one of the ways they show the difference between him and Blood Falcon. He's a clone and dresses similarly, but with differences to show they're not the same despite him being a clone. It ruins that.
@@lucylu3342 Nah I’m saying as as veteran fan because that’s what 20 years of nothing does to you. I understand GX is also the greatest but we need to take baby steps first with F-Zero 99 in order to possibly get a remake of GX too.
@@brandonwilliams6119 ...yeah, you're right.. I just want to get the speed rush that GX gave me again. 99 feels too slow now, but I guess I can wait more.
Beside's Captain Falcon and Goroh? Just off the top of my head... - James McCloud (My main Driver for my Customs) - Blood Falcon - Black Bull (Edit: Black Shadow) - Dr. Stewart - Bio Rex - Beast Man - Super Arrow - Ms. Arrow - Phoenix - Octoman (Edit) HOW DID I FORGET PICO?! DX I feel so ashamed of myself.
I want a 99 mode, but mabe 99 induvidual racers is much to ask fore😅. I want F-Zero to have bouth a story mode where you go on a galaxy spanning bountyhunting adventure where he mabe has to bring down another racer or have to team upp with fore example pico to doo a bounty. I also want a carriere mode where you cruate youre own carracter and machene. You start the carriere mode with youre first 3 or so cupps in F-Zero's version of formula 2 until you win and earn youre super lisence. Once you are in the bigg luege you continually uppgrade youre machene , gett new and better sponsores and build a fanbace. Until you have earned enough cash to build the ultimate speedmachene and best Captain Falcon himself
Michael Chain was that dude. He was low-key my favorite antagonist in all of F-Zero. I agree his voice was unfitting as heck, like some dork with a sore throat instead of an actual intimating gangsta thug. But I still get a laugh out of his voice to this day.
Oh also it is heavily implied that the crash that happened before X was Pico's fault. Also X the racing is actually illegal as it was outlawed nd that is why the coyrses have so many death pits, bombs, and hazards. It is literally an illegal death race.
Dr. Stewart, James McCloud, Blood Falcon, Jody Summer, John Tanaka, Leon, Black Shadow. ( a bit more, but maybe on the safer side, if somebody thinks Blood Falcon and Black Shadow is too ez.)
Really struck me how new this list was when you used that pic of the Garage 56 NASCAR entry at Le Mans at 10:54, LOL. And fuck, this vids inspired me to try and do some fan-art; I've only ever played F-Zero GX, but I'm still annoyed that Nintendo's done next to nothing with the franchise since then because it was so fun and the characters had so much potential.
If you don't mind, I'd like to go over the 10 Maximum Velocity pilots. 1: Megan - Literally the only thing we know is that she's a black belt in Karate. Megan pilots the Hot Violet, a machine she claims was gifted to her by a fan. 2: Mickey Marcus - A hotshot pilot and a rockstar. Honestly, Maximum Velocity was kinda weak in the lore department. We don't really get much lore on his machine, the Fireball, either. 3: Jane B. Crystie - She's a fashion model and a fan of vintage cars. She actually designed her own machine, the J. B. Crystal. 4: Nichi - A Native American who carries the nickname "The Sweep Man". His machine is the Wind Walker, also controversially called the Crazy Horse in Japan, and it's heavily inspired by traditional Native American artwork. 5: Lord Cyber - A rich nobleman with a love of technology and vintage cars. His machine, the Sly Joker (Dirty Joker in Japan) is heavily inspired by Caterham roadsters and has the best boosted speed retention in the entire series by far, as well as one of the most powerful boosts in general, although the boost itself is short-lived. 6: Alexander O'Neill - A retired professional football player who switched gears and began racing in F-Zero. His machine, The Stingray, is a highly streamlined machine with a high top speed and a unique vectored thrust system for steering. Vectored thrust itself is rare in F-Zero, only seen elsewhere on the Wild Goose and Green Amazone, but The Stingray's system is particularly unique in that it uses a secondary thruster system for steering, rather than the primary engines. 7: Kent Akechi - This guy is Captain Falcon. Well, no. He's actually Captain Falcon's son, or so he claims. And he comes complete with his own (superior) version of the Blue Falcon, the Falcon MKII which resembles a combination of the Blue Falcon itself and an A-10 Warthog with its massive, outboard turbofan engines, boasting superior speed and boost capabilities at the cost of some body strength (if it were given X-style letter stats they'd be CBB, vs the Blue Falcon's BCB). 8: Blitz Wagner - Dr. Stewart's protégé. Not much else given. His machine, the Silver Thunder, is a much sturdier version of Dr. Stewart's second machine, the Luna Bomber. 9: Kumiko - Pilot of the Fighting Comet and another one of Dr. Stewart's students. Her machine is all about boosting, in boost speed, duration and retention at the expense of durability and unboosted top speed, like the SNES Golden Fox on steroids. However, the Fighting Comet is the exact opposite of the Golden Fox in terms of handling, having lots of grip but a bad turn rate. 10: Professor Yazoo Jr. - He's the son of Professor Yazoo and the designer of the BEST MACHINE IN F-ZERO MAXIMUM VELOCITY, the Jet Vermilion. The Jet Vermilion's handling is best described as "poor but compliant", with good balance and a slow but tolerable turn rate. It also has the most powerful boost in the entire franchise, a VERY sturdy body, and a high unboosted top speed to boot with great boost retention coupled with an average boost duration.
Name 5 who are not falcon or goro: Jodi, Starfox's dad, jiggly green guy, there's an octopuss and i dunno, one of the many guys who look kinda like captain falcon
My thoughts on the pilots in the GameBoy Advance installments and the GP Legend anime: th-cam.com/video/m7wRjBUcGWo/w-d-xo.html
The pilots are the reason why F-Zero is my favorite game series. The gameplay is amazing but secondary. Without the pilots, there is no heart.
Another thing about Goroh interestingly enough is that he may be a ruthless thief, but he would never kill anyone. Yet we see him threaten Falcon's life on a couple of occasions.
But maybe Falcon knows his threats are just hot air.
And I believe Dr. Stewart played a big part in preventing any casualties from the huge F-Zero accident that happened before X, so based off of that I'd imagine he indeed is largely responsible for Mighty Gazelle's cyborg implements.
Hence his nickname of The Miracle Surgeon.
I LOVE the lord in this game. It’s so crazy.
Honestly, this is one pretty diverse cast of racers! Better than having a pink-gold variant.😂
Great breakdown of the series' racers. One of my favorite things about F-Zero, next to the fantastic gameplay, is the presentation. Most arcade-style racing games of this type are deliberately barebones in that area, which is fine, but what makes F-Zero stand out is its dedication to that 80s-90s comic book aesthetic. For a Japanese franchise, it really nails the stylings of American comics from that era. All of the characters take after common archetypes like superheroes, supervillains, bounty hunters, mutants, aliens, cyborgs, etc. It's campy and doesn't take itself seriously, but still exudes a degree of badassery that perfectly matches the tone of the medium it's emulating.
The characters are all fairly shallow parodies, but there's just enough to each of them that they're fun and endearing. Leaving so much up to the mind of the player also lends an element of personalization to the experience of gameplay. Why exactly DOES Goroh hate Falcon so much? You're never really told in any detail, but all you know is you get an extra sense of satisfaction from running your rival off the road during a grand prix. The effort to include ultimately trivial but entertaining detail through characterization seems like a small thing, but it adds a ton of charm to the actual play experience and puts F-Zero on a higher pedestal for me than most other futuristic racing games.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
It makes sense. The whole series was inspired by American comics and professional wrestling.
Nintendo confirms that American comics what is the inspiration.
I haven't actually seen anyone talk about the characters in F-ZERO who aren't just Captain Falcon, Goroh or Black Shadow. Thank you
Who is here after F-Zero 99?
Hello!
I’ve never been too fond of the F-Zero series but after watching this video, it’s criminal that Nintendo hasn’t tried anything new with these games or characters yet. It totally deserves more!
Considering the talk of all Nintendo fans concerning F-Zero 99, I feel like F-Zero is finally coming around to public knowledge and reigniting interest in the series. I genuinely believe this series might have another chance soon!
@@luigines6457 one theory why Nintendo abandon F0, is because Mario karts drifting controls were not very good back then. So now now that Mario kart has gotten a lot better. Nintendo no longer needs F0???
So far there is at least hope for 2d f zero.
Yeah I agree with the silliness
F-Zero is essentially Pro Wrestling as racing.
WHOA thank you so much for mentioning my cover of James McCloud’s theme! Great video!!
Thank you for the awesome cover of James McCloud's theme. One of the best covers I've ever heard.
As someone pursuing a second college degree at age 34 I relate to Silver Neelsen on a spiritual level. I want this series to come back now more than ever.
I appreciate that the girls in this game are just as muscular as the guys - true girlbosses
Yea it's a classic American comic book artstyle after all.
@NaNoRarh Are you a twitter user? Because that's not what they said.
Well they deleted their message lol
What did they say? I didn't see it
@@SincereSneakyy They said something about your comment meaning that you hated women and you're a misogynist lol
I always thought the James McCloud reference was really cool and that they should've eventually attempted human versions for more of the Star Fox cast. Imagine a human Falco, Krystal, Wolf and even Andross here.
F-Zero GX also always gave me a fighting game vibe with the way it's character lore and arcade ending movies were handled.
They also put Octoman in Star Fox: Command...as a villain.
I played that game before I got into F-Zero, so I initially thought the F-Zero Octoman was a villain too.
Iirc, the anime actually mentions the the F-Zero universe's versions of Peppy and Pigma.
@@GmNdWtchr96 Oh really?! Its a shame we never got to see them.
And as the cherry on the Sunday… In one of the endings, Fox and Falco can become racers!! (Ik Star Fox Command is bad, but it would have been a scandal if I didn’t mention it.)
@@gravity8120 It's because he's a boss in SFC that I don't consider Octoman as a hero. More of a neutral character due to his temperament. That said, he could be redeemed as one if he fought fishermen invading his planet.
Man, your rank-order list was crazy. Goes to show the variety of the characters and the different opinions people can form of them. For real, though, F-Zero characters are pretty cool and, I think, if more people knew about them, it would make lots more fans for the series.
So glad to see a video that puts the spotlight on the characters. This was always a very underrated aspect of the series. Maybe if they do another game (whenever that will be) they can try to do something to flesh them out more, like a World Tour mode similar to Street Fighter 6, especially if they have Toshihiro Nagoshi, the creator of the Yakuza games, working on the game again. Hell, this can also work for a new Virtua Fighter game. Also, for my favorite characters in the series, Captain Falcon is an obvious one but I really think Phoenix really cool, I also really like Samurai Goroh, being the brash rival of Falcon who has a lot of personality but is also a decent father surprisingly enough. And I would also love to mention Princia Ramode, who I have a huge soft spot as she somewhat reminds me of Jam design wise but probably has more similarities to Daisy from the Mario series, both being tomboy princesses of a desert area.
the fact none of the Pilot Themes (especially Captain Falcon's) is in Smash Bros is a grave gaming SIN
Nintendo probably doesn't have any rights over them.
@@Mari_Izu doesn't Nintendo own F-Zero as a whole i.p?
@@falloutboy1379Yes, but GX and it's music was done by SEGA. That's likely why.
Weird thing with octoman, in the games he has a noble reason to race, where as in the anime he works for zoda and black shadow
I'm not a fan of the alien bias in the anime. All the heroes are either human or look human (like Mr. EAD).
It’s straight up speciesism
@@charactersin-depth3472At least those aliens have more than one episode! Try being Silver Neelsen
“the evil forces will never get their hands on this belt I’LL KEEP WINNING!” *- Captain Falcon.*
GX's soundtrack honestly didnt have to go nearly as hard as it did, but they were like "nah EVERYONE gets a song" shows how much they cared.
You know what they should do.
A comic for every character, where they show up a bit of lore to these magnificent people.
Or an OVA for every character
I always loved Jody Summer, she reminded me a lot of Samus.
Same here!!
Didn't even watch it yet but thank for covering one of my favorite racing games and series of all the time.
Hope it comes back soon.
@@charactersin-depth3472 Have been hoping for years. The fans and games inspired by F-zero still pop up. Great videos too dude!
@@277Shadow Oh, thanks. 🥹
@@charactersin-depth3472Nintendo doesnt care
22:50 I think his design (mainly the glasses) are based on Beat from Jet Set Radio
As for the Machine name, I think the dolphin part is a reference to the GameCubes Codename (which was Dolphin, they loved to make dolphin references back then)
This is probably more likely. The theory he gave seemed too random
I grew up playing F-Zero X and GX. I love these games, I love these characters, I love each characters theme songs. GX especially shows that F-Zero has such a colorful cast of characters and it is so criminal that they haven't done literally ANYTHING with almost the entire cast. Hoping with the success of F-Zero 99 that Nintendo decides to bring them back in the coming years (hopefully with a little better writing lol)
Awesome video, thanks for spreading the good news of F-Zero :)
Kinda wish you went into the interviews more.
Mighty Gazelle actually revealed he does Disaster Rescue when he isn’t racing. So would that make him a hero in your definition?
Oof, that does count him as one. F-Zero always has a ton going on.
There's so much information about the characters, like Super Arrow never actually driving before entering F-Zero, Don Genie funding some of Black Shadow's operations, and Mr. EAD's machine is actually his brother!
They didn't need to go into so much detail for each character but they did. I'd love to see another F-Zero even just to learn more about the characters.
1:19 I tried this challenge initially, managed to get all 5, celebrated, only to later realize I got the names wrong anyway. Oh well! Glad to see you're back, Characters In-Depth!
You were close. Besides, Captain Arrow has a ring to it.
@@charactersin-depth3472 There's an upcoming game called Aero GPX that can match F-zero GX.
Awesome video! It's great to see someone talk about F-Zero's forgotten cast. I always thought F-Zero had a ton of fun and quirky characters that needed more spotlight, but never got to shine due to the severe lack of F-Zero games. These character have a lot of potential. Give us more from them, Nintendo!
I support your F-Zero support.
Nintendo doesn't care about us, just to let you know
How about a game about Captain Falcon being a bounty hunter that takes down evil-doers.
Perhaps he can team up with F-Zero pilots along that way to give them time to shine? I don't know, I would love that.
To drive to places is with their vehicles.
I imagine swapping between pilots like DK64
I loved James McCloud's Theme so much I would just stay on the select screen, options or whatever just to hear his song play over and over again. Such a cool rift.
I appreciate that you gave attention to the lore side of F-Zero, as it is really one of the BIG unique aspects of the series that makes it great. I mean, we even got our own anime--is that not proof F-Zero is more than just a racing game?
I... wouldn't consider the anime to be a _good_ thing in this case. It and GPL basically killed the franchise until very recently.
Personally, I don't feel that the anime or GP/Climax is to blame for F-Zero's lack of modern life. I'm pretty confident that F-Zero GX not yielding great success is the more likely source. But I'm just taking guesses here.
I think my favorite pilot in terms of being outside the machine is Leon. He's a surprisingly nice guy!
But PJ just shot up for me as well. Maybe its because i just learned that what i previously thought was a mouth is actually his snout.
Mine is Silver Neelsen
Goroh actually had a decent time in the Anime, he was badass and actually helped the heroes a lot but doing it for his benefit as well but he would help with honor. But he also trolled quite a bit and it was hilarious. Goroh was my favorite during the anime besides Ryo and Haruka. The anime was badass and amazing and even though its ending was sad it was really good.
It was so amazing that it got literally every character wrong :V
You play Art of Fighting?
There’s some interesting tidbits about the machines. Like Draq and Roger’s machines. Not only did they wind up unclaimed, apparently they were built by a racing team that completely and mysteriously vanished after something called The Great Accident
I bet you're stoked now that it's back and dominating the online discord. Definitely didn't see that coming.
Oh, I’m stoked.
that part with silver neilson and you wanting to keep at it a being a voice actor got to me, been streaming for a year now but its something i want to do as a full time thing so the video at that part really gave me some motivation to keep streaming up
Keep doing what you love.
Hey, I paused the video at 1:23 and was able to name seven: Jodi Summer, Dr. Stewart, Lisa Alen, Black Bull, Blood Falcon, and James McCloud. I could probably name more but I have a headache right now. I read quite a few bios in F-Zero GX, man we really need another one of those. Great video so far.
Crap I mean six, I told you I had a headache.
F-Zero’s lore is why I think F-Zero stands out from other racing games to me.
Other racing games wish they had story and music like this
Blood Falcon's Hell Hawk logo is pretty sick btw.
F-Zero 99 is a step in the right direction for the series. It truly needs to define itself compared to modern day Mario kart
I’m so addicted to this game! F-Zero would do so well nowadays especially given the amount of players I’ve seen playing 99
@@skateorpie I mean, you do all realize a new game would be exactly nothing like F-Zero 99, right?
StarFox and FZero. Two game series I love that get no respect
Two series I love as well. Both are very similar to each other. If they had a crossover together, it would have been more than perfect: It would have been perfectly amazing!
Fun fact about Spade: He's actually the ball in his torso, the rest of him is just a projection
More like a puppet of sorts, given how he can physically interact with stuff.
Masterful video on literally my favorite game, and franchises ever!!! Thank you so much for this!!
Thank you so much! 😊Anything to spread the F-Zero love.
Damn am I missing out. Captain Falcon is so well known for being in Smash Bros and his “Falcon PUNCH” meme.
This series NEEDS a comeback.
I don't want to be this guy, but I almost knew all the names from the game, even most of the Cars names. My brother and I played this game to no end, doing everything on Extreme took so much of our time, but there were very few games that felt so rewarding beating the Extreme difficulty.
Mission 7, the Grand Prix, took calculating and perfect driving to even think about winning. Kill Black Shadow right at the start of the race, because he started one position behind you. Take out Blood Falcon next, because he will hug the first place for the whole race. Boosting perfectly, and taking every turn for 5 full laps and you MIGHT win.
Or Mission 5, saving Jody....holy crap man. You get like 45 Seconds. One teeny tiny mistake, and you restart. And you have to boost 24/7, so driving as fast as possible for the Blue Falcon, while dodging doors in a tunnel and flying through gaps that barely have enough space to fit through. You also had to take every boosting arrows, or you couldn't make it because your own boosting was not enough.
F-Zero is such a good franchise, a shame that Nintendo buried it because of the bad sells.
What a fantastic video! Even though I discovered the video now, it's a great way of introducing everyone quickly to all the characters F-zero has to offer. But I have to be that guy and say that I would have liked that you mentioned two important facts that were censored!
These are in the japanese version, which is still dubbed in english (no jp dub), where in the interviews, Digiboy says that he doesn't believe in god (upon asked, "Who believes in such illusions?"), and that Baba dresses in drag, which is pretty cool if you ask me. Still, I must say again that thanks for the effort!
Thank you! 🥲
1:19 off the top of my head dr stewart, pico, jody summers, octoman, and james mccloud
I started get deep in the f-zero franchise thanks to X on the switch
I’ve also purchased the original cartridge for the n64 and GX
This games deserve so much love damn they’re just AWESOME
THANK YOU FOR PUTTING SILVER ON TOP OF YOUR LIST! THAT MEANS THE WORLD TO ME!
12:22 Shoutout to Iwata who created both the Star Fox and F-Zero series. He’s also the very reason why Fox and Falcon (Captain Falcon, not Falco Lombardi) are connected to each other.
Nintendo: We can’t make a new F-Zero game until we can come up with a new gimmick for it.
Also Nintendo: Gives us a sequel to mediocre launch title for the Switch that not a lot of people remember or liked.
😆
@@charactersin-depth3472
Seriously, who asked for a sequel to 1-2 Switch?
@@misterniceguy429 Games like 1-2 Switch was made with gimmicks in minds. Gimmicks are not likely to work with F-zero.
@@orangeslash1667
Motion controls didn’t work out so well for Star Fox and yet Nintendo still went with that gimmick for Star Fox Zero.
@@misterniceguy429 Starfox zero's controls is not as bad as everyone says. You can use the minus button to put the cockpit view to the Tv screen and back again.
Plus it made sense shooters with motion controls were a trend. Splatoon, Prime 3, and Resident Evil 4.
Not the case with racing games.
My favorites have got to be Spade, Phoenix, and Silver Neelson. Phoenix has the best character theme.
And then F-Zero 99 came out. & it's absolutely fun as hell
I AM THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE MR. EAD FAN GRAAAAAAAHHHHH
Baba needs to remain untouched if they ever make a new game. He's fabulous the way he is.
And Dai, San and Gen deserve to return too. Seriously, if the problem is their voices, just have them played differently. They could even still have accents with a more PC portrayal, as long as no one tries to play the "accents in general are racist somehow" card that too many people like to play now.
Sadly in the suffocating pc world, any attempt of an accent will be misconstrued as such.. hell i don't get what is so "racist" about Dai san gen's voices.
That Pico dub was *On-POINT*
1:44 does the "G" make it sound cooler 😂
To the max!
To this day F-Zero is one my favorite games on the GameCube still can’t beat very hard😂
Let's go! Numerically!
0. Deathborn
1. Mighty Gazelle
2. Jody Summer
3. Dr. Stewart (My doctor's name is coincidentally also Robert Stewart.)
4. Baba
5. SG
6. Pico
7. CF
8. Octoman
9. Mr. EAD
10. James McCloud
11. Billy
12. Kate Allen
13. Zoda
14. Jack Levin
15. Bio-Rex
16. The Skull
17. Antonio Guster
18. Beastman
19. Leon
20. Super Arrow
21. Mrs. Arrow
22. Gomar & Shioh
23. Silver Neelsen
24. Michael Chain
25. Blood Falcon
26. John Tanaka
27. Draq
28. Roger Buster
29. Dr. Clash
30. Black Shadow
31. Don Genie
32. Digi Boy
33. Dai, San, and Gen
34. Spade
35. Dai Goroh
36. Princia Ramode
37. Lily Flyer
38. PJ
39. QQQ
40. Phoenix
And that's just GX.
1:20 Honestly it took me a moment to think about five characters besides Samurai Goroh and Captain Falcon.
Dr. Stewart, Pico, Judy Summer, Black Shadow, and Blood Falcon.
The thing is unless you bothered to look at the trophies in Melee, Brawl, or Ultimate you likely wouldn't know about them let alone the game itself.
I feel like the world is ready for the campy goofiness of F-Zero again. I hear GX is getting a remaster for Switch that will drop in 2024. Hell yeah!
F-Zero99 was to gauge reception and it knocked it out of the park. We need this remaster 🥲
@@skateorpie I keep seeing people say that and there's, like, no proof of it.
Sega really went all out with the GX soundtrack. Every character has a unique theme
1:43 The GX makes it sound even cooler.
25:20 I'm not sure whether life is short or not, but his machine, Night Thunder, is great
It is. Enjoy every day as much as you can!
This was an excellent video and has great editing and commentary. I hope you get more views soon!
1:21
Easy. Super Arrow, Mrs. Arrow, Phoenix, PJ, Princia Ramode, Dr. Stewart, Pico, Black Shadow, Deathborn, Michael Chain, Silver Neelson, DaiSanGen, Dai Goro, Jody Summers and Blood Falcon
That's why F-Zero are so specials compared to others futuristic games, there's a complete lore and universe in it, about pilots, and also about their machines, like Black Shadow's Black Bull being an old desamorced missile, Zoda's Death Anchor too, but he doesn't know that it's not desamorced and so his machine litteraly is a bomb being able to explode at any moment on the race
Fire Stingray, Green Panther and Silver Rat are all the catch from an old thief when Goroh and Guster were still in good terms, but after Goroh's betrayal, Guster stole the Green Panther as a revanche, Silver Rat is also a prototype machine, it explains why it's overall weaker than any other machine except in boost power
Others examples of lore according machine is Leon's Space Angler being pretty weak due to the lack of good quality stuff to build it after the war on his planet, on the contrary of Don Genie's Fat Shark being an absolute monster due to the amount of money spent into it, it's even said that Fat Shark's engine is litteraly made of pure gold
And there's so much more lore ! That's why F-Zero is the best racing game franchise ever made !
Man i miss this series...loved GX
Octoman is portrayed as a villain in the anime storyline, which I always thought was oddly mature seeing as his profile shows him fighting for his own planet and everything
So, for that first question at the start.
1. Zoda
2. Super Arrow
3. Ms. Arrow
4. James McCloud
5. Phoenix
6. Blood Falcon
7. The Skull
As much as I love F-Zero Nintendo scares me with their responses to F-Zero between “We don’t know what to do with it.” And “Mario Kart already exists.” I’m horrified thinking of what Nintendo would do to the series. The last game Nintendo developed for F-Zero was X which was amazing but that was older Nintendo.
I’m just afraid Nintendo will try to gimmick the game up with stupid mechanics and stuff nobody wants. Like the Mario sports games that had to have stupid gimmicks like making fighting game mechanics in tennis and racing in Mario golf.
We're more-or-less past the motion control/touch screen craze. If there's a new F-Zero, it should be buttons. There could be an option for motion controls just for the fun of it.
F Zero 99 looks promising......
Then FZERO 99 came out only using 4 of the og pilots but thats okay cause DR. STEWART IS HIGH TIER FOR ONCE BABYYYYY
Hope they add the 4 cars and tracks from the BS games. I love 99, but 4 cars is too little after playing the GBA games for years xD
I grew up playing f zero x and never played/ heard of f zero gx till a few years ago and always assumed the anime which I watched when I was little was the official lore story line and just imagined it when I played fzero x. Now I gotta play Gx to experience the campaign and those crazy tracks
You're in for an extreme ride. GX means business, and it's so rewarding. I'm trying to unlock the AX racers. Got 2 so far.
No idea how GX managed to get by you, but you’re in for a treat.
I wished you would go to do the anime as well, because I love on of the characters there.
However you did a great job spotlighting other pilots in the franchise, because having Captain Falcon as the ONLY representitive in Smash Bros. is downright criminal.
Who else could represent in Smash? Black Shadow has potential. Pico, I would love.
@@charactersin-depth3472 Well just make Samurai Goroh also a playable character.
Hell at this point I'll get ANY F-Zero character that is good by me.
Basically any of the characters shown in this vid could've been in a Smash game. Dr. Stewart or Dr. Clash could be a pretty funny addition. Or maybe give Super Arrow a chance to shine? Or hell, put Jody Summer in the game, she's a federation pilot! She could be best buds with Samus.
I always thought the princess character was a reference to Night into Dreams
Nice video. Great work!
What is the name of the
music? …when the EVIL
category start @13:29
Black Shadow's theme.
@@charactersin-depth3472
Thank you. I hope, I will find
the whole music, somewhere
on the TH-cam. Nice Weekend.
I think Bolson from Zelda: Breath of the Wild might have been somewhat inspired by Baba. Both characters are flamboyant and wear some form of tiger print
You’re looking too much into it lol. They’re just flamboyant gay stereotypes.
@@denimchicken104 they are for sure, but it's interesting how both characters have such strikingly similar costume designs. It's unfortunate they're both so stereotypical, but the similarities are still too plenty to just ignore, and with the F-Zero franchise having been in limbo for so long, it wouldn't be too shocking to find out they've been recycling some of those old character concepts.
The tiger print is because Bolson is inspired on Ocarina of Time's Master Carpenter, which wore tiger print pants and his wife had a tiger kitten as pet, not because of Baba.
I’ve always wanted to play one of the console f zero but my favorites are samurai goroh, PJ, blood Falcon and captain Falcon
If you have a Switch, you can check the SNES classic and X out.
very outstanding video!!
youve honestly piqued my interest for this neat game.
from what i saw i'd say my favorites are:
Spade (i REALLY like their design)
Super Arrow & Mrs. Arrow (theyre too cute.)
Mighty Gazelle (i think hes cute too!!)
Deathborne (hes SO funny yet still has a menacing streak to him)
maybe Blood Falcon too (i have a strange obession with pathetic evil clones LOL)
with that said, maybe i should give GX a try.. looks fun as hell
Hard as hell too, but worth it.
Bruh the trio pilots are so fun, they should come back
aweosme I like James McCloud
Do you want to see a Open World F Zero game Starring Captain Falcon?
Holy crap, I can see that.
@@charactersin-depth3472 Right
Hell, I'd see one as a newcomer who won the minor leagues before F-Zero but starts badly as hours after making the victory party, gets its machine broken down, beyond repair, where you begin with an E-Rank vehicle. You'd go through missions, getting money for vehicle parts and pilot clothes, hair and skin (if you want to make it human or from another planet) and having an alignment system, depending on who you choose as allies and rivals/enemies, as your goal is to become a F-Zero legend, vying to eventually get the attention of Captain F himself.
@@EnvyDSin I'd so play that.
I really hope 99 succeeds so that Nintendo will be enticed to make a new F-Zero game
It's such a crime that Falcon is the only character that's in Smash, like cmon not even Dr. Stewart? So many of them are interesting! Favorite character for me is a tough one, I like a lot of em. I can't decide between several of them, like Dr. Stewart, Mighty Gazelle, Ms. Arrow, Jody, or Gomar & Shioh. Favorite craft in the 3D games though is the Fire Stringray, that thing cruises! Also I'm GX I think it's the only one when a moving tail rudder.
You're like name Pilots that aren't Captain Falcon or Samurai Goro and I'm about to yakko's world the entire cast over here.
Now mind you that I don't currently have a rhyming guide with me but it would go something like this
Mr EAD, Octoman, Digi-Boy, Dai Sen Gen, Baba, Gomar & Shioh. Spade, Roger Guster, Draq, Antonio Guster, Zoda, Pico, Princia Ramode
People who cosplay as Falcon and have the scarf out have failed. That stupid look is only is Smash, he never has it out in F-Zero.
It doesn't matter
Scarf out is cooler tho
@@Mari_Izu Not really. That's one of the ways they show the difference between him and Blood Falcon. He's a clone and dresses similarly, but with differences to show they're not the same despite him being a clone. It ruins that.
F-ZERO 99 IS THE GREATEST THING THAT COULD’VE HAPPENED TO THE FRANCHISE!
Are you saying this as a new fan?
Because I would say GX is the greatest thing.
@@lucylu3342
Nah I’m saying as as veteran fan because that’s what 20 years of nothing does to you. I understand GX is also the greatest but we need to take baby steps first with F-Zero 99 in order to possibly get a remake of GX too.
@@brandonwilliams6119 ...yeah, you're right..
I just want to get the speed rush that GX gave me again. 99 feels too slow now, but I guess I can wait more.
Beside's Captain Falcon and Goroh? Just off the top of my head...
- James McCloud (My main Driver for my Customs)
- Blood Falcon
- Black Bull (Edit: Black Shadow)
- Dr. Stewart
- Bio Rex
- Beast Man
- Super Arrow
- Ms. Arrow
- Phoenix
- Octoman
(Edit) HOW DID I FORGET PICO?! DX I feel so ashamed of myself.
I want a 99 mode, but mabe 99 induvidual racers is much to ask fore😅. I want F-Zero to have bouth a story mode where you go on a galaxy spanning bountyhunting adventure where he mabe has to bring down another racer or have to team upp with fore example pico to doo a bounty. I also want a carriere mode where you cruate youre own carracter and machene. You start the carriere mode with youre first 3 or so cupps in F-Zero's version of formula 2 until you win and earn youre super lisence. Once you are in the bigg luege you continually uppgrade youre machene , gett new and better sponsores and build a fanbace. Until you have earned enough cash to build the ultimate speedmachene and best Captain Falcon himself
Michael Chain was that dude. He was low-key my favorite antagonist in all of F-Zero. I agree his voice was unfitting as heck, like some dork with a sore throat instead of an actual intimating gangsta thug. But I still get a laugh out of his voice to this day.
F-Zero really has a nice cast of characters, also recently I watched the movie Redline and I can see the inspiration
Oh also it is heavily implied that the crash that happened before X was Pico's fault. Also X the racing is actually illegal as it was outlawed nd that is why the coyrses have so many death pits, bombs, and hazards. It is literally an illegal death race.
That's not true, X takes place after a temporary ban put on the race was finally lifted.
How does this not have at least 1k likes? This is a great vid. The one who wants to get his plnet out of poverty is probably my favorite tho.
Draq in the top 10 let's gooooooo
Dr. Stewart, James McCloud, Blood Falcon, Jody Summer, John Tanaka, Leon, Black Shadow. ( a bit more, but maybe on the safer side, if somebody thinks Blood Falcon and Black Shadow is too ez.)
At least we getting an indie successor with XF Extreme Formula
Really struck me how new this list was when you used that pic of the Garage 56 NASCAR entry at Le Mans at 10:54, LOL. And fuck, this vids inspired me to try and do some fan-art; I've only ever played F-Zero GX, but I'm still annoyed that Nintendo's done next to nothing with the franchise since then because it was so fun and the characters had so much potential.
If you don't mind, I'd like to go over the 10 Maximum Velocity pilots.
1: Megan - Literally the only thing we know is that she's a black belt in Karate. Megan pilots the Hot Violet, a machine she claims was gifted to her by a fan.
2: Mickey Marcus - A hotshot pilot and a rockstar. Honestly, Maximum Velocity was kinda weak in the lore department. We don't really get much lore on his machine, the Fireball, either.
3: Jane B. Crystie - She's a fashion model and a fan of vintage cars. She actually designed her own machine, the J. B. Crystal.
4: Nichi - A Native American who carries the nickname "The Sweep Man". His machine is the Wind Walker, also controversially called the Crazy Horse in Japan, and it's heavily inspired by traditional Native American artwork.
5: Lord Cyber - A rich nobleman with a love of technology and vintage cars. His machine, the Sly Joker (Dirty Joker in Japan) is heavily inspired by Caterham roadsters and has the best boosted speed retention in the entire series by far, as well as one of the most powerful boosts in general, although the boost itself is short-lived.
6: Alexander O'Neill - A retired professional football player who switched gears and began racing in F-Zero. His machine, The Stingray, is a highly streamlined machine with a high top speed and a unique vectored thrust system for steering. Vectored thrust itself is rare in F-Zero, only seen elsewhere on the Wild Goose and Green Amazone, but The Stingray's system is particularly unique in that it uses a secondary thruster system for steering, rather than the primary engines.
7: Kent Akechi - This guy is Captain Falcon. Well, no. He's actually Captain Falcon's son, or so he claims. And he comes complete with his own (superior) version of the Blue Falcon, the Falcon MKII which resembles a combination of the Blue Falcon itself and an A-10 Warthog with its massive, outboard turbofan engines, boasting superior speed and boost capabilities at the cost of some body strength (if it were given X-style letter stats they'd be CBB, vs the Blue Falcon's BCB).
8: Blitz Wagner - Dr. Stewart's protégé. Not much else given. His machine, the Silver Thunder, is a much sturdier version of Dr. Stewart's second machine, the Luna Bomber.
9: Kumiko - Pilot of the Fighting Comet and another one of Dr. Stewart's students. Her machine is all about boosting, in boost speed, duration and retention at the expense of durability and unboosted top speed, like the SNES Golden Fox on steroids. However, the Fighting Comet is the exact opposite of the Golden Fox in terms of handling, having lots of grip but a bad turn rate.
10: Professor Yazoo Jr. - He's the son of Professor Yazoo and the designer of the BEST MACHINE IN F-ZERO MAXIMUM VELOCITY, the Jet Vermilion. The Jet Vermilion's handling is best described as "poor but compliant", with good balance and a slow but tolerable turn rate. It also has the most powerful boost in the entire franchise, a VERY sturdy body, and a high unboosted top speed to boot with great boost retention coupled with an average boost duration.
Name 5 who are not falcon or goro: Jodi, Starfox's dad, jiggly green guy, there's an octopuss and i dunno, one of the many guys who look kinda like captain falcon
I’m going to miss the stereotypes if Nintendo ever makes a new game. They are so fun!